Associated manuscript: Assessing the calibration of transition probabilities in a multistate model out of the initial state
The first section of this document contains the plots assessing the moderate calibration in the large development sample analysis for the pseudo-value and MLR-IPCW methods in the non-informative censoring (NIC) scenario. To showcase each methods ability to appropriately assess non-linear patterns of miscalibration, there is a seperate plot for each method, containing the calibration plots for the perfectly calibrated, over predicting and under predicting transition probabilities. These plots are of the same type as Figure 2 from the main manuscript.
Figure S1: Assessment of moderate calibration for the pseudo-value approach in scenario NIC, large sample analysis
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Figure S2: Assessment of moderate calibration for the pseudo-value approach in scenario NIC, large sample analysis
The second section of this document contains the plots assessing the moderate calibration in the large development sample analysis for the BLR-IPCW, pseudo-value and MLR-IPCW methods in the weakly and strongly informative censoring scenarios (WIC and SIC). To compare the bias of each method in the presence of informative censoring, there is a seperate plot for each type of predicted transition probability, where all three methods (BLR-IPCW, pseudo-value and MLR-IPCW) are compared. These plots are of the same type as Figures 3 and 4 from the main manuscript.
Figure S3: Assessment of moderate calibration for each method
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Figure S4: Assessment of moderate calibration for each method
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Figure S5: Assessment of moderate calibration for each method
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Figure S6: Assessment of moderate calibration for each method
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The third section of this document contains the plots assessing how robust BLR-IPCW and MLR-IPCW are to misspecification of the weights. We considered four options:
-BLR-IPCW: weights estimated from the data using perfectly specified model, as was done in the main manuscript.
-BLR: no inverse probability of censoring weights were applied in the calibration models.
-BLR-IPCW-MISS: weights were estimated from the data using a misspecified model that did not adjust for the predictor variables (a Kaplan-Meier estimate of being censored).
-BLR-IPCW-DGM: weights were calculated directly from the data generating mechanism, rather than being estimated from the data.
Note that the above is done for both BLR and MLR.
We expect BLR-IPCW-DGM to be optimal. We think the most important comparison is with BLR-IPCW-MISS, which applies the weighting, but in a sub-optimal manner. The important conclusions from these figures are that in scenarios WIC and SIC, even when the weights are misspecified (BLR-IPCW-MISS and MLR-IPCW-MISS), there is not a huge drop in performance. If one fails to adjust for weights at all ('BLR' or 'MLR' approaches), there is a considerable drop in performance. This is even true for assessing mean calibration, and is most evident in Figures S25 and S26.
Figure S7: Misspecification of weights, BLR
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Figure S8: Misspecification of weights, BLR
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Figure S9: Misspecification of weights, BLR
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Figure S10: Misspecification of weights, BLR
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Figure S11: Misspecification of weights, BLR
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Figure S12: Misspecification of weights, BLR
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Figure S13: Misspecification of weights, BLR
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Figure S14: Misspecification of weights, BLR
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Figure S15: Misspecification of weights, BLR
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Figure S16: Misspecification of weights, MLR.
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Figure S17: Misspecification of weights, MLR.
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Figure S18: Misspecification of weights, MLR.
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Figure S19: Misspecification of weights, MLR.
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